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Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world.1 And having wedded Earth, he begat first the
Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size
and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads.2

1 According
to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 126ff.), Sky
（Uranus） was a son of Earth （Gaia）, but afterwards
lay with his own mother and had by her Cronus, the giants, the Cyclopes, and so forth.
As to the marriage of Sky and Earth, see the fragment of Eur. Chrys., quoted by
Sextus Empiricus, Bekker p. 751 (Nauck TGF(2), p. 633, Leipsig, 1889); Lucretius i.250ff., ii.991ff.;
Verg. G. 2.325ff. The myth of such a marriage is
widespread among the lower races. See E. B. Tylor, Primitive
Culture （London, 1873）, i.321ff., ii.370ff. For
example, the Ewe people of Togo-land, in West Africa, think that the Earth is the wife
of the Sky, and that their marriage takes place in the rainy season, when the rain
causes the seeds to sprout and bear fruit. These fruits they regard as the children of
Mother Earth, who in their opinion is the mother also of men and of gods, see J.
Spieth, Die Ewe-Stämme （Berlin, 1906）, pp.
464, 548. In the regions of the Senegal and the Niger it is
believed that the Sky-god and the Earth-goddess are the parents of the principal spirits
who dispense life and death, weal and woe, among mankind. See Maurice Delafosse,
Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Paris, 1912),
iii.173ff. Similarly the Manggerai, a people of West Flores, in the Indian
Archipelago, personify Sky and Earth as husband and wife; the consummation of their
marriage is manifested in the rain, which fertilizes Mother
Earth, so that she gives birth to her children, the produce of the fields
and the fruits of the trees. The sky is called langīt; it
is the male power: the earth is called alang; it is the female
power. Together they form a divine couple, called Moerī
Kraèng. See H. B. Stapel, “Het Manggeraische Volk
（West Flores）,” Tijdschrift voor Indische
Taal-Landen Volkenkunde, lvi. （Batavia and the Hague,
1914）, p. 163.

Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.

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